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Currie, Old School and Schoolhouse. View from North with Currie Kirk in background.
SC 565220
Description Currie, Old School and Schoolhouse. View from North with Currie Kirk in background.
Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 565220
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ML 1931/19
Scope and Content The Old Parish School, Currie, Edinburgh The Old Parish School, designed by William Burn and executed by David Bryce in 1828-9, stands just to the north-west of Currie Parish Church. The layout of the school was planned by Robert Palmer, the school's most famous 'dominie' or schoolmaster. The 23rd March 1829 Parish Minute gives the finalised build cost as £427. These two single-storeyed cottages, with crowstepped gables and tall chimneys with diagonal shafts, were described in 1845 as 'commodious as well as ornamental'. They were converted into houses, Rosebery Cottages, when the school closed c.1904. Robert Palmer, appointed schoolmaster in 1828 at an annual salary of £20, had 120 pupils to whom he taught Latin, French, Geography, Mathematics, English and Writing. His hobby was curling, and he was a founder member of the Currie Curling Club in 1830. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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